In Spain, Pope greeted by small crowds and gay kiss-in

The other day I reported on the head of the Belgium Catholic church assaulting the LGBT community by claiming that AIDS is “justice” for gays. I guess Pope (Ratzinger) Benedict heard and wanted to get in on the action. He went off on women’s rights, decried increasing secularism and gay marriage in Spain.

POPE BENEDICT has denounced abortion and gay marriage, recently legalised in Spain, at a Mass to consecrate Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church as a basilica in another criticism of what he called Spain’s “aggressive secularism”.

Leave it to the Spanish to provide the pontiff with an appropriate welcome!

On Saturday the pontiff visited Santiago de Compostela, where he paid homage at the tomb of Saint James in the cathedral, and later said Mass in the main square before a large congregation – many of whom were pilgrims who had completed their Holy Year pilgrimage. Leader of the conservative opposition Mariano Rajoy, a practising Catholic, was present with his wife and took Communion during the Mass.

In both cities there were smaller crowds than expected; hoteliers, bar and restaurant owners complained over lack of business, and many locals were annoyed at the amount of money spent on the visit. Five hundred gays and lesbians staged a “kiss-in” along the route of the papal motorcade, and other groups demonstrated against the visit and the church’s opposition to contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage.

I’m quite sure the sight of all those handsome Spanish men kissing gave Her Eminence the vapors. ¡Viva España!